Section 1941

Citation: Section 1941
Parent Document: Knight v. Hallsthammar, 623 P.2d 268 (1981)
Jurisdiction: California (state)
Effective Date: 1981-02-13
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1241155/knight-v-hallsthammar/ ↗

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As stated by the Supreme Court of Washington, “[a] disadvantaged tenant should not be placed in a position of agreeing to live in an uninhabitable premises. [Uninhabitable] [h]ousing conditions .. . are a health hazard, not only to the individual tenant, but to the community .... [S]uch housing conditions are at least a contributing cause of such problems as urban blight, juvenile delinquency and high property taxes for the conscientious landowners.” (Foisy v. Wyman (1973) 83 Wn.2d 22 [515 P.2d 160, 164-165]; see also Javins v. First National Realty Corporation (D.C. Cir. 1970) 428 F.2d 1071, 1080 at fn. 49, 1082 at fn. 58; Boston Housing Authority v. Hemingway (Mass. 1973) 363 Mass. 184 [293 N.E.2d 831, 843]; Fair v. Negley (1978) [257 Pa.Super. 50] [390 A.2d 240, 243-245]; Teller v. McCoy (W.Va. 1978) 253 S.E.2d 114, 130-131; but see Mease v. Fox (Iowa 1972) 200 N.W.2d 791, 797, 798; see also Moskovitz, The Implied Warranty of Habitability: A New Doctrine Raising New Issues (1974) 62 Cal.L.Rev. 1444, 1448.)

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